Uta Kilasonia – a graduate of the faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences.

“After my graduation I started working at School. I taught informational and communicational technologies; later I continued working in the field of the STEM.

STEM is a combination of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Technologies are going to be developed so greatly in the future that many professions won’t ever exist. Creative and inventing skills will be the most valuable ones and STEM makes students get ready for that reality.

At present I cooperate with Senaki, Batumi, Kutaisi and Martvili private schools. I share the knowledge about STEM to my students and help them become not only customers, but inventors and creators. As a result, it will support the state’s economic stability.

When I started working at school I had little information about the role of the teacher, though, with the help of my colleagues and practice I managed to get to this result and I got to the team of ten best teachers presented to the national reward for best teachers.

I always try to support forming and developing civil responsibility in students. Last year students of St. Aleksi Shushania Orthodox school-gymnasium of Senaki became the winners of Millennium Innovation Contest, we created a special device for landslide hazard zones which is very helpful in preventing natural disasters. It should be mentioned that the students of the same school were rewarded with the Grand Prize in a Hackathon held in Akaki Tsereteli State University and were given laptops from Microsoft.

The invention of the students of Kutaisi Georgian-American school “Progress” – the robot measuring distance.

In general, students have difficulties in learning natural sciences at school in our country. As usual, many people talk about lack of modern technological devices and resources, though, the lack of qualified staff is an important challenge, even at the universities.

I have no illusion that all students of STEM will be an inventor, though, I believe that this attitude will make students develop creative thinking”.